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You’re underestimating the value of immediate, global, and easily accessible coordination. Trump can try to build his own Twitter but it’s nowhere near the triv

by lovecg 6y ago

You’re underestimating the value of immediate, global, and easily accessible coordination. Trump can try to build his own Twitter but it’s nowhere near the trivial proposition you’re making it out to be. Without this coordination mechanism the mob becomes headless and decentralized.

AnthonyMouse 6y ago
The hardest part about creating your own Twitter is convincing enough people to switch at once to create a critical mass. Transferring the sitting President of the United States and several other prominent members of his party at the same time in a very public way is exactly how you induce that to happen. That Parler thing was temporarily offline under the load of all the new users. That's not the problem you have when you're having the actual problem of convincing enough people to switch.
- lovecg 6y ago
  That’s one thing that’s hard about it. Scaling and running the service reliably is far from trivial and this tends to be severely underestimated by “let’s just build a competitor” crowd.
  - Kim_Bruning 6y ago
    https://parler.com/ https://parler.com/ Didn't everyone move to Parler?
    - jantap 6y ago
      that aged like fine milk
  - AnthonyMouse 6y ago
    > Scaling and running the service reliably is far from trivial and this tends to be severely underestimated by “let’s just build a competitor” crowd. This is not a trivial problem, but it's also not one that hasn't been solved a hundred times before, and seems to be something they've already handled. But I also want to put something in juxtaposition here. You have on the one hand the argument that this isn't censorship because they're a private company and you can just make your own. On the other hand, the argument that booting them off is useful because making your own is impractical and they'll fail. If one is true then the other isn't, right?

by lovecg 6y ago

AnthonyMouse 6y ago

The hardest part about creating your own Twitter is convincing enough people to switch at once to create a critical mass. Transferring the sitting President of the United States and several other prominent members of his party at the same time in a very public way is exactly how you induce that to happen. That Parler thing was temporarily offline under the load of all the new users. That's not the problem you have when you're having the actual problem of convincing enough people to switch.

lovecg 6y ago
That’s one thing that’s hard about it. Scaling and running the service reliably is far from trivial and this tends to be severely underestimated by “let’s just build a competitor” crowd.
- Kim_Bruning 6y ago
  https://parler.com/ https://parler.com/ Didn't everyone move to Parler?
  - jantap 6y ago
    that aged like fine milk
- AnthonyMouse 6y ago
  > Scaling and running the service reliably is far from trivial and this tends to be severely underestimated by “let’s just build a competitor” crowd. This is not a trivial problem, but it's also not one that hasn't been solved a hundred times before, and seems to be something they've already handled. But I also want to put something in juxtaposition here. You have on the one hand the argument that this isn't censorship because they're a private company and you can just make your own. On the other hand, the argument that booting them off is useful because making your own is impractical and they'll fail. If one is true then the other isn't, right?